“Even Jens Stoltenberg talked about this. We won’t start the war, I promise you that. But our relations with the North Atlantic Alliance and those countries that make joining it their first priority will be seriously undermined, ”the minister said.
According to him, at present, these relations are not so much undermined.
“Not to that extent. There are many countries in NATO that do not make this fetish and develop normal good neighborly relations with Russia. But when NATO is obsessed with non-stop expansion, we see this as an exclusively desire to surround Russia with the enemy ring, ”he added.
As Lavrov noted, we are talking about an attempt to impose on Russia "orders that are based on the very rules that the West promotes instead of international law."
Earlier in Georgia, speaking of the desire to join the EU and NATO, they noted that joining the alliance concerns “returning to the European family” and is aimed at the security of the region.
As the Russian leader Vladimir Putin emphasized, those who seek to include Ukraine and Georgia in NATO should think about the consequences of such a policy.